Restore SharePoint Sites
The Restore SharePoint Sites feature enables administrators to recover entire SharePoint sites, including documents, lists, and libraries, from backups. This ensures that critical team sites, project resources, and collaboration tools are quickly restored, minimizing disruptions to business operations and workflows
Step 1: Select Backup Job
To select the backup job you want to restore, navigate to Recovery tab where all the backup jobs configured for the Microsoft 365 will be listed. Click on the Restore icon of the respective Microsoft 365 backup job to proceed.
Step 2: Choose Restore Type
Restore SharePoint Sites
User Mailbox, Group/Shared Mailbox, SharePoint Sites and Teams are the four different types of granular restores supported in the BDRSuite Backup for Microsoft 365. In this case, choose the Restore Type as Restore SharePoint Sites to proceed.
Step 3: Restore Version
The restore version is created based on the end time of the backup (i.e. the date and time when the backup process scheduled is completed), this is named recovery points. The full backup and incremental backup time-stamps are listed with the latest backup version as a parent node and the old backup version further sub-nodes. You can fall back to the required time-stamp whenever needed to recover the backed-up data.
Time Range
Select the time range or date range by clicking on the drop down menu under the Time Range option. The drop-down menu will typically display a list of preset time ranges, such as “Last 24 hours,” “Last 1 Week,” or “Last 1 Month.” The user can select one of these options to quickly choose a time range, or they can select a date range to specify the start and end dates.
Restore Point
As per the range chosen the restore points/time stamps that falls within that time period will be listed and can be selected from the drop down menu under the Restore Point option. Time stamps of the Full – full backup, Incr – incremental backup and the R- Incr – retry backup (Incremental ) will be used to denote the respective time stamp. Choose the restore point to proceed.
Step 4: SharePoint Sites Granular Recovery
Choose Restore Type
1. Restore Sites
Restore all the Libraries, Folders, and Items from the selected Site
2. Restore Library
Restore all the folders and Items from the chosen library.
Choose Site to Restore: Choose one of the existing sites to restore the library from.
Choose Library to Restore: Choose the library to restore from the selected site.
3. Restore Folder/Item
Select Restore folders/ Items option and choose the site and Library to Restore. Clicking on the File/Folder search/filter option will open a page where you can customize filtering as per requirement. The chosen folder is shown, you filter it based on file/folder name, the last modified time and the size of the file/foler.
The folders are listed and further sub folders can be chosen and it is all shown in the breadcrumb view.
Info: BDRSuite Backup for Microsoft 365 supports restore of any site only as a team site. Recovery of SharePoint site users and site web part page is currently not supported in BDRSuite Backup for Microsoft 365.
Step 5: Restore Options
Restore Site
The restore can be performed to the three different locations. The sites can be restored to the original location or can be restored to an existing site or a new site can be created and and the data can be restored to the new created site.
Target Site
1. Original Site: Selected sites will be restored to the same original site.
2. Choosing from existing sites: The selected sites will be restored to one of the existing sites you can choose from the existing sites.
Clicking on the drop down icon will open the following pop up
3. Create New site: Users can create a new site and restore all the selected sites to the new site.
Restore Description: Enter restores description for future use.
Restore Library
The restore can be performed to the three different locations. The sites can be restored to the original location or can be restored to an existing site or a new site can be created and and the data can be restored to the new created site.
Target Site
1. Original Site: Selected library will be restored to the original site.
2. Choosing from existing sites: The selected Library will be restored to one of the existing sites you can choose from the existing sites.
Clicking on the drop down icon will open the following pop up
3. Create New site: Users can create a new site and restore all the selected library to the new site.
Target Library
1. Original Library: Selected library will be restored to the same original library.
2. Choosing from existing Library: The selected library will be restored to one of the existing libraries.
3. Create New Library: Users can create a new Library and restore the selected library to the newly created library.
Restore Description: Enter restores description for future use.
Restore Folder/Item
The restore can be performed to the three different locations. The files/folders can be restored to the original location or can be restored to an existing site or a new site can be created and and the data can be restored to the new created site.
Target Site
1. Original Site: Selected files/folders will be restored to the original site.
2. Choosing from existing sites: The selected files/folders will be restored to one of the existing sites you can choose from the existing sites.
3. Create New site: Users can create a new site and restore all the selected library to the new site.
Target Library
1. Original Library: Selected files/folders will be restored to the same original library.
2. Choosing from existing Library: The selected files/folders will be restored to one of the existing libraries.
3. Create New Library: Users can create a new Library and restore the selected files/folders to the newly created library.
Restore Description: Enter restores description for future use.
Step 6: Review
This page will summaries the configuration you have chosen for restore which can be reviewed and the recovery can be initiated.
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